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Africa: Mosquitoes Carrying Malaria Are Evolving More Quickly Than Insecticides Can Kill Them – Researchers Pinpoint How

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago010 mins

The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted by insects present another evolutionary front: Insects themselves can evolve resistance to the poisons that people use to kill them. In particular, the mosquito-borne disease malaria kills over 600,000 people annually. Since…

Africa: Coffee Crops Are Dying From a Fungus With Species-Jumping Genes – Researchers Are ‘Resurrecting’ Their Genomes to Understand How and Why

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For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee supply over the past century, with consequences that reach from African farms to cafe counters worldwide. Infection with the fungus Fusarium xylarioides results…

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African Researchers Call for Stronger Integration to Advance Continental Agenda

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Addis Ababa — Senior African researchers have called for deeper collaboration and greater integration to accelerate the continent’s research and development agenda. Speaking at a panel discussion on Actionable Approaches to Empower African Research and Development during Science, Technology and Innovation Week 2026 in Addis Ababa, experts stressed that coordinated efforts and stronger ecosystems are…

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Africa: Malaria Researchers Are Getting Closer to Outsmarting the World’s Deadliest Parasite

eriinfo.com3 months ago011 mins

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas – it’s a global threat that travels with people across borders. For decades, the fight against malaria has felt like running in place. Bed nets and drugs…

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Africa: Project Will Yield Results for Developing Climate-Smart Agriculture in Eastern Africa – Researchers

eriinfo.com6 months ago03 mins

Addis Ababa — The regional Land, Soil and Crop Information Services project has concluded with promising results for climate-smart agriculture in Eastern Africa. At the event held today in Addis Ababa, key results and lessons learned from four years of project implementation in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda were discussed. It was learnt that Land Soil…

Africa’s Floods and Droughts are Messing With Our Minds. Researchers Are Trying to Figure Out How

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When climate disasters strike Africa, the physical damage is obvious. But we’re only beginning to understand the psychological toll. Here’s why Western definitions of trauma can miss so much, and how one group of researchers are trying to get a better picture. When the World Bank compared data from 1970-1979 to weather patterns just four…

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Africa: Researchers Identify One of the Largest Water Towers in Southern Africa in Angola

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Luanda — Angolan and National Geographic researchers have confirmed the existence of one of the largest water towers in southern Africa in Angola’s central highlands, where major rivers such as the Zambezi, Kwanza, and Congo originate. The Vice President, Esperança da Costa, announced this on Tuesday at the opening ceremony of the Southern African Science…

Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to immune system researchers | News

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DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, The international team discovered how the immune system is kept in check to prevent it attacking the body. Published On 6 Oct 20256 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon…

Innovator calls on researchers to examine AI symbiosis for HIV

eriinfo.com7 months ago07 mins

A nanocarrier is a microscopic drug delivery system that can transport therapies directly to targeted cells. A self-taught, Durban-based developer is seeking to push the boundaries of medical research by showing how human-AI symbiosis could strengthen HIV treatment with antiretrovirals (ARVs). Unlike conventional uses of artificial intelligence (AI), which typically focus on data analysis or…

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Africa: Trump’s New Rules for U.S. Govt Research Grants – What It Means for African Researchers

eriinfo.com8 months ago013 mins

Cape Town — U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new executive order that changes how the U.S. government awards research grants and foreign monetary assistance on August 7, 2025. The order is called Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking, and while the government says this will stop waste and ensure tax money is used properly, profoundly impact…